In learning and straightway practising is there not pleasure also? When friends gather round from afar do we not rejoice? Whom lack of fame cannot vex is not he a gentleman?
-Confucius

Honeyed words and flattering looks seldom speak of love.
-Confucius
To guide a land of a thousand chariots, honour business, be true and sparing, love the people, and time thy claims upon them.
-Confucius
The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, heedful and true, full of goodwill for the many, close friends with love; and should they have strength to spare, let them spend it upon the arts.
-Confucius
Of a gentleman who is frivolous none stand in awe, nor can his learning be sound. Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
-Confucius
As long as his father lives a son should study his wishes; after he is dead, he should study his life. If for three years he do not forsake his father’s ways, he may be called dutiful.
-Confucius
A gentleman who is not a greedy eater, nor a lover of ease at home, who is earnest in deed and careful of speech, who seeks the righteous and profits by them, may be called fond of learning.
-Confucius
Not to be known should not grieve you: grieve that ye know not men.
-Confucius